Molecular genetic studies in atrial fibrillation

Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 109-113

  Lai, Ling Ping ^a,b   Lin, Jiunn Lee ^b   Huang, Shoei K Stephen ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Genetics; Linkage analysis; Potassium channel

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOMINANT GENE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0345257747     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073910     Document Type: Review

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